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The history of the English non-League football system encompasses the history of non-League football in England. The non-League football system describes the hierarchical system of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs that sits below the English Football League. Currently, The Football Association administers the top six ...
A non-League match between Maine Road and 1874 Northwich of the North West Counties Football League, part of the ninth level of English football.. The "League" (with a capital 'L') in "non-League football" originally referred specifically to The Football League (now the English Football League, which the Premier League split from in 1992), rather than being a misnomer, as "non-League" clubs do ...
Before the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, the Football League, as it was called then, included all 92 clubs, in four divisions. Clubs outside the Football League were referred to as non-League clubs, and this naming continues for clubs below the four professional divisions. The top tier of non-League football is the National League.
The National League is the lowest of the five nationwide professional football divisions in England, below the Premier League and the three divisions of the EFL, and is the top tier of the National League System of non-League football. The National League North and National League South form the sixth tier of professional English football. The ...
The Football League continued to strengthen over time, and in 1920–21 it expanded to absorb the 20 strongest Southern League teams, followed by the addition of two more southern teams and 18 leading northern non-League clubs the following year, making the eminent so-called non-League divisions by this point feeders to the Football League ...
Although the National League is the top level of the non-league pyramid, it is not the highest level of English football (it is actually the fifth overall division). The Premier League and the three divisions of the English Football League (EFL) comprise the top 92 clubs in the English game; each season, two teams from the National League ...
This is a list of non-League football stadiums in England, ranked in descending order of capacity. There is an extremely large number of non-league football stadiums and pitches in England, and a definitive list of stadia would be impossible to produce. This list therefore includes: All football stadiums with a capacity of at least 5,000.
The Danish association is the first non-British European football association. The Football Alliance is formed as a rival to The Football League. The first football association not admitted to FIFA is formed: the Cornwall County Football Association. Rosario Central, and Mohun Bagan, the oldest football club in India, is founded.